The Celebrated Prophet

Matthew 21

Jesus's entry into Jerusalem further revealed that He is the Messiah, the true King of Israel worthy of the people's praise.

When Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, He fulfilled Old Testament prophecies about the coming Messiah and proclaimed He is the One who fulfilled them. The people praised Jesus but for the wrong reasons, thinking He had come to free them from Rome. Jesus did not come to free people from the tyranny of a worldly power but rather from the power of sin and death.

Because we know Jesus as our Savior, we put away hypocritical and hollow worship and exalt Him for who He truly is -the Son of God who came to take away the sins of the world.